{"id":28528,"date":"2008-02-28T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:10:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:10:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T04:10:34","slug":"can_facts_trump_faith_in_obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/02\/28\/can_facts_trump_faith_in_obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Facts Trump Faith in Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. I am a highly trained broadcast specialist, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations daily. This is the most listened to and largest radio talk show in America.<\/p>\n<p>One of our singular achievements here: We have made the word &#8216;liberal\u2019 a dirty word. That\u2019s among the many things that they hate. We have made liberal a dirty word to the point that they do not want to use it to describe them, including Barack Obama. No desire. He makes fun of the fact people call him a liberal. Oh, liberal this, liberal that. They come up with progressives or moderates or some other label for themselves. They go out and hire people like George Lakoff (rhymes with) to help them come up with language to fool people. We have made liberal a dirty word. (laughter) The point here about Obama. Dawn was, in the break, very emphatic with me about this Obama guy is not acting presidential, if he doesn\u2019t want people calling him Hussein, calling him liberal. He\u2019s running for president of the United States. He\u2019s going to sit around; he\u2019s going to talk with people that are going to call him worse than that. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125111.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignright\"\/>Her point was, the presidential way would be, &#8216;I don\u2019t care what you call me. Call me what you want to call me. There are far more important things out there than my name. I\u2019m running for president,\u2019 but he\u2019s encouraging all of this censorship, and he\u2019s thanking McCain and others who are enforcing this censorship on Republicans for not using Obama\u2019s full name. So it\u2019s a good point. He isn\u2019t acting very presidential here. But that doesn\u2019t matter. See, this is the point that I continue to make: It doesn\u2019t matter. As far as dissuading his supporters at this stage, those kinds of things aren\u2019t going to matter. Look, don\u2019t ask me. I don\u2019t know what it takes. I\u2019ve never been able to disabuse too many people of their faith in whatever it is. I\u2019ll give you a couple of examples: perfectly harmless people, not even ideologically inclined who have bought into Gore\u2019s movie, bought into this whole manmade hoax. I pound \u2019em. I don\u2019t mean passionately. I don\u2019t mean shouting. I just recite fact and verse. <\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s like shattering a worldview that they don\u2019t want shattered, and they\u2019d rather continue to believe what is not true because it makes them feel good, or because there\u2019s a faith attachment to it. It\u2019s going to be very difficult here. I\u2019m going to be interested to see how it is that people attempt to dissuade the Obama faithful from him. Now, admittedly, this is early and there will be a lot that will happen between now and the conventions in August and September and then when the general election starts&#8230; (interruption) Yes, Mr. Snerdley? Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. Mmm-hmm. All right, all right, all right, all right, I tend to disagree with you on this, Mr. Snerdley. Mr. Snerdley says I have disabused people of their faith. His example was Mrs. Clinton\u2019s health care plan in 1992, that we effectively dissuaded people from a faithful attachment to the concept of government-run universal health care. We did it over the course of many months and with fact after fact after fact. <\/p>\n<p>I think we finally got through to people on this by pointing out what the real motivation of the people who were trying to sell this program to everybody was. But I don\u2019t know that people had a faith attachment to Mrs. Clinton, certainly not personally. She\u2019s never had that, and I don\u2019t think people had a faith attachment to the issue. I think what we were dealing with there was just the constant, ongoing, never-ending battle that the left has won &#8212; and that is convincing more and more people that government is there to do just that kind of thing. I think we defeated health care with ideas. We defeated health care with how bad it was. We defeated Mrs. Clinton, but look, we\u2019re back here again. We have to keep fighting this stuff. It\u2019s now a central theme of both Hillary and Obama\u2019s campaigns. That\u2019s why I watched this debate. You know, I didn\u2019t care about the specifics of her plan versus his. I\u2019m watching two people tell us how they are going to destroy the capitalist free market. Not only in health care, but in the oil business and in a number of other things. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sitting here, and I\u2019m transposing myself as a Democrat watching the debate, getting all caught up in the vagaries, the differences between the two plans; but not refuting and not objecting to the premise, which is the government should provide everybody health, that it is &#8216;a right.\u2019 It is not! Health care is a privilege, but it is not a right. Rights come from God. They\u2019re mighty different things. But the left has succeeded in convincing an increasing number of people that that is the purpose of government. Global warming is the same kind of thing. We have faith attachment to it. The left, the worldwide left, has convinced billions of people around the world. Billions around the world have accepted the whole concept behind the hoax of manmade global warming. Now, in this country, only half the country believes it. That\u2019s progress. Mr. Snerdley thinks that if it weren\u2019t for me, then 75% or 80% of the country would believe it like the rest of the world. (interruption) Mr. Snerdley thinks if it weren\u2019t for me, Kyoto would have been signed already. I don\u2019t know. Not even Clinton wanted to get us signed. He wouldn\u2019t even send that up to the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>He wouldn\u2019t even sign that one himself. Well, maybe because of me. You\u2019re lavishing too much praise on me in here and giving me a little bit too much credit for things here, but Snerdley\u2019s point is: It can be done. Separating people from their faith, their faithful beliefs when the faithful beliefs are bogus, can be done. But the one thing that I know: It cannot be done by agreeing with a part of the hoax to show that you\u2019re a nice guy or what have you. It\u2019s a war, and you need warriors to fight wars. That\u2019s another reason the left is all upset. We\u2019re warriors out here. The old Republicans just laid down and died and hoped for the invitation to play golf with the Democrat leaders. And that\u2019s when conservatism was good, that\u2019s when conservatism was civil, and that\u2019s when we all got along. That\u2019s when &#8216;liberal\u2019 was a great word, as was &#8216;communist.\u2019 But now they\u2019re dirty words, and so forth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. I am a highly trained broadcast specialist, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations daily. This is the most listened to and largest radio talk show in America. 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